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College of Humanities and the ArtsSan José State University
One Washington Square
San José, CA 95192-0223Cathleen Miller, Director

Tom Barbash

Fall 2013

Tom Barbash is the author of the novel, The Last Good Chance, winner of the California Book Award, and the nonfiction book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11, a New York Times bestseller. His stories and articles have appeared in The Best American Non-Required Reading, Tin House, Bookforum, and The Believer, and have been performed on NPR’s “Selected Shorts.” His new story collection, Stay Up with Me, will be published in September, 2013.

“Barbash gives us a wise, infatuating collection [Stay Up With Me] that navigates the thorny passages of preoccupation more honestly than any recent fiction. With alarm and empathy, and often an irrepressible urge to laugh, we watch his characters dig their own graves and realize ‘what it feels like to be lost.'”— SFGate

“Stay Up With Me is a superb collection of stories-sophisticated, lyrical and moving, incisive in depicting the emotional connections between parents and children, husbands and wives, strangers and lovers. Tom Barbash is a blazingly good writer.”— Jess Walter, author of the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins